Hi there!

I’ve setup a kali-linux xfce desktop (via Windows10 wsl2 + win-kex package) and to get it looking crisp I set it up so that Windows doesn’t apply any scaling to it, but rather make XFCE do that itself. (see also: https://www.reddit.com/r/Kalilinux/comments/14iicps/winkex_windows10_highdpi_setup/ )

I’m mostly happy with how that turned out, but now those two applications look much too tiny:

  • LibreOffice
  • unison-gtk

How can I get XFCE to apply high-DPI scaling to those too?

  • @sixede5290OPEnglish
    2•1 year ago

    Thank you for your reply @ka@discuss.tchncs.de !

    It seems Kali linux’s LibreOffice packages already come with svg icon themes installed out of the box:

    ls /usr/share/libreoffice/share/config/*svg*
images_colibre_dark_svg.zip
images_colibre_svg.zip

    But somehow that setup is broken. I managed to solve my issue with LibreOffice by uninstalling all LibreOffice related packages from the Kali Linux repositories and instead downloading 7.4.7.2 Linux_x86-64_deb.tar.gz from https://www.libreoffice.org/download/download/ and installing all the *.deb packages it contained.

    But sadly, even though I’ve solved this one, the list of applications I’m missing HighDPI scaling on has grown:

    • unison-gtk
    • bless
    • emacs

    If you or anybody else has any hints on what I could try to improve my situation with one of those, I’d love to give it a go! :)